Monday, January 28, 2002

Reason 7,326 that I think my wife is wonderful: Tonight when I got home from work she surprised me with a copy of Tron 20th Aniversary Edition DVD. I'm really looking forward to watching it later this week. 10:35:51 PM     Cursed Sub? Navy sub, transport ship collide in Oman. Sub involved in Hawaii incident, USS Greeneville, clips vessel in Oman; no injuries. [USA Today : Front Page] I hadn't heard the story of the Greeneville grounding shortly after coming out of drydock for $2,000,000 repairs and the new captain losing his command over that incident. Now add this collision and you've got a series of very strange coincidences. Hopefully no one will lose their job this time around. 10:14:24 PM     A Glove That Speaks Volumes. A teenager has turned a golf glove into a tool that can translate American Sign Language into text. Want to know more? Talk to the hand. [Wired News] This is a really clever invention, but the coolest thing to me is that a teenager came up with the device. Once it gets developed beyond finger spelling to full ASL recognition it'll be an incredibly powerful input device. 12:03:14 PM     Robot toys are tops. The annual Toy Fair in London sees Lego-made Bionicles scoop top award. [BBC News: sci/tech] Here in the U.S. I've seen various smaller Bionicles kits and games from Lego, but I didn't realize they had remote control stuff out. Cool! 11:35:35 AM

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